Anne has been a partner in Foxpath IND since 2000, specializing in the transition to and from traditional content publishing and online content development, management, and publishing. Her clients include trade book publishers; technology and financial services Web sites; and arts and cultural institutions. Anne’s semimonthly column, Digital Reading, discusses user experience and related topics in ebooks and digital reading. Anne is emerita president of Women’s Media Group, an industry organization, Chief Judge of the Publishing Innovation Awards and a member of BEA Conference Advisory Board for 2013. She is the author of several books for children and a definitive collection of jokes.
Not long ago I got together online with Bret Freeman, Brett Sandusky, and Tony O’Donoghue to discuss the new tablet reality and how book publishers should take advantage of this fall’s surge in new tablet computers. We already know that …
Several weeks ago in a DBW webcast we heard from editor Peter Lynch of about the new agile book development experiment going on at Sourcebooks this spring. “Entering the Shift Age,” by futurist David Houle, would be posted online as …
I don’t consider myself a social reader but I’ve always admired Kobo’s commitment to refining and improving the user experience for social readers. I recently found out that this commitment extends to all aspects of the user experience, which makes …
Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a webcast titled “Agile Content Development for Book Publishers.” We had less than an hour to explain, demonstrate and sometimes defend the agile methodology in its use for books. We certainly didn’t …
Speaking of user experience—we haven’t yet discovered the word that will describe the digital, transmutable, readable, platform-agnostic, weightless, immersive, elastic … creation, hitherto known as a book. We should hurry up and get this naming process started. Why should we …
The rest of the media world is beginning to see the light about UX. Advertising agencies are hiring UX professionals to help design campaigns, and just last week, author Brian Solis started a short series at FastCompany.com about the need …
Anne Kostick | Many who are disappointed with digital reading’s progress so far just say, “Call me when you’ve perfected it. Until then I’ll stick to print.”